St. James' Day (The Apostle, brother of St. John and son of Zebedee, the first martyr, patron of furriers, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Spain, veterinarians and against arthritis, sometimes called Jacob, the Latinized version of his name) The Pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela -- Galicia, Spain (one of the world's largest pilgrimages still, to the church that has the supposed relics of St. James, culminates on the Saint's feast day)

Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler, 285Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops, 306The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings, 864Sebastián de Belalcázar, on his search for El Dorado, founds the city of Santiago de Cali, Colombia, 1536Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, 1567Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism, 1593James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of England, bringing the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into personal union; political union would occur later, 1603Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México, 1693British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians; thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England, and some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick, 1755Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain), 1797Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua, 1824The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden Town in London, 1837The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms, 1869Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it, 1908Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure, 1917The first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place, 1920Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established, 1925At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team, 1946Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51, 1956The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed, 1957Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born, 1978Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948, 1994K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office, 1997Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground, 2000Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president, 2007